Tuesday, March 29, 5-6 pm, Bombs Away Café - HydroHour, a gathering of Hydrophiles, the graduate water resources club, all are welcome.

Wednesday, March 30, 12-12:50 pm, Nash 104J - Spring Hydrology Seminar Series Journal Club with John Wiens, Point Reyes Bird Observatory | There will be journal club meetings throughout the seminar series and students can enroll for credit.

Water Community Announcements

Please encourage your undergraduate students to submit their projects for this year’s campus-wide undergraduate research symposium “Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence: Research, Innovation, Scholarship, and Creativity” (CUE) scheduled for Thursday, May 5 from 10:00 – 2:00 in the MU Ballroom. The student application deadline to present work at the CUE is April 8, 2011. All OSU undergraduate students are eligible to submit their work and an adviser is required to sign off on the project in order for them to present. Presentations will be judged on overall appearance, accuracy and content. For more information and to apply online here. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact Joy Jorgensen by email or by phone at 541-737-6166.

National and International Events and Conferences

Other Items of Interest

EPA Releases Report, Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments: Four Case Studies of Water Utility Practices This report presents a series of case studies describing the approaches currently being taken by four water utilities in the United States to assess their vulnerability to climate change. The case studies illustrate different approaches that reflect specific local needs and conditions, existing vulnerabilities, local partnerships, and available information about climate change. Information from these case studies will be useful to water utilities and other members of the water resources community to inform the development of strategies for understanding and responding to climate change. Read the full report here.